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Elizabeth Bard
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
 
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The wonder of a love affair with a happy Frenchman — and the city of Paris — unfolds charmingly in Elizabeth Bard's intoxicating new novel.

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When Elizabeth Bard celebrated Thanksgiving recently in her adopted home, Paris, she listed her many blessings. “I have a healthy and happy baby. I am in love with my husband more every day. And my book was published!”

The 35-year-old author of Lunch in Paris, a love story with recipes, says she still pinches herself in case it’s all a dream. “Never, never,” could she have believed that a lunch in Paris with a man she barely knew could have resulted in a love affair that would transform her and her life so completely.

Formerly a “constantly striving New Yorker and type-A control freak” American, a decade in Paris has taught the journalist and art historian how to pause and take pleasure in the moment.

Read more about Elizabeth and her novel Lunch in Paris in the February issue of The Australian Women's Weekly out now with Lisa Wilkinson on the cover.

 
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Learn more about Elizabeth Bard When this interview was recorded I was seated at Les Editeurs in Paris’ 6eme arrondissement with a very pregnant author awaiting both the birth of her first child and first book. I am happy to report that mom and both her baby and book are doing well. terrance at Paris Through Expatriate Eyes

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